[PoE] Ranking all the Atlas strategies from Based or cringe - Stream Highlights  

3:56 "Blight is chill pretty chill" also Cassia: *"Mycelia! New roots!"*

Loved the line "Farming 5-6 divines per hour is really respectable", no gatekeeping, just really positive ♥

"Except, you know how I said last but not least? Now let me introduce you.." >Starforge ad pops up What an excellent segue way to a sponsor, 10/10 content creator

You mentioned your build which was a strong all rounder with a ton of investment. For people without as much currency to start with, picking the proper strat for your build is also important (e.g.: Don't go legion with a slow melee build). Poison builds are basically made for blight, explosions make expedition and harvest a breeze, etc. Your div/hour will be higher if you pick the strat that works for your build over the strat that has the theoretical highest div per hour. You can always do whatever you want with whatever build though, this is a game after all so fun is priority, but a bit of planning can help achieve your goals faster.

Ranking the strats I did so far, will continue this next league. Which one was your favorite? Thanks for watching!

I have 400 div to burn, so seer and go it is!

I farmed harbinger for about a week and got ~10 fracturing orbs total. This was from around 2-3 hours per night. Used 2 base harbi scarabs, 1 regency, and 1 duplicate. I dont recommend using the single shard type one

Hello empyrian. Ive learned a Lot watching ure Videos over the Last Months. AS a new Player with only 500h in the Game, it really helped to understand more. Keep watching ure Videos until next League. Thank u and Take Care. (Sorry for my Bad english,its my 2nd language)

I think I watched every one of these and they were awesome. Fantastic content, very appreciated, and super well done.

For another video, maybe especially relevant for next league start, I'd love to hear what you recommend at lower character power or for first strats of a league vs which strats need fully geared characters or a fully completed atlas. If you were a filthy casual, what's the most fun and efficient ways to farm the first 5, 10, 20, 50 div of a league?

Loved this series. Are you doing the others (e.g., Abyss, Beyond) next league?

For me it's really important how easy it is to set up / time confusiming to buy scarabs? and also how hard / time consuming it is to liquidate.

so proud of my streamer turning into a little scientist, gathering data, making reports. you're S+ in my book!!

Remember that the most important thing is to do in the game what you enjoy the most, even if it's not the most profitable thing ;)

The content has been most delicious going on so many years now. So happy to see it keeps getting better and that you’ve stuck to your fun first roots! You honestly helped me have fun gaming again with your overall positive mentality ❤

These strats helped a tonn, I didnt want to try everything myself but here I could choose both fun and profitable strat. Managed to buy both of the funny belts and basically all the cool uniques I wanted to try for so long. It is no doubt the best league for me, thank you mr. streamer

Loot or Boot?!

Commenting for you to get the engagement bonus. Thanks for throwing this together Empy+Editor(s).

I really liked blight at the beginning of league, but I dropped it for strongboxes after the oil prices nosedived. Surprised you didn't test out strongboxes in your series, it has very low investment and good div card, currency, and 8 mod map sustains.

Numbers I not real. Time to sell all gains is not counted. The most profit comes from the harvest, since vivid lifeforce is instantly sold. Other 2 are not instant, but quite fast.

S tier content, helping everyone make good currency doing things they enjoy. You're an absolute pillar of the community, and it's guys like you who help keep it alive. Keep it up, Empy!

POE where people call you "Godslayer" but in fact you are a person usually getting one shotted by one variation from 500+ monsters.

As someone who has more hours watched of POE than I do of actual play time. Watching all of these videos this league has been super fun.

Nice video ! I've been farming Ritual Alva and Heist (Heist lover forever) most of the time. I definitely got nice things in ritual but it's not consistent, and you need to look after good fractured or synthesis equipment. Alva's Locus of corruption sells for almost 2 div, every 3 map you get a temple (given you allocated all points). Heist is just my fun time, and when I get low on chaos orbs, heist is my way to replenish them. I even dropped a headhunter during a unique contract, which is nice. Also blueprints rewards can be valuable (Tailoring Orband the other Orb dor example). Jun's also nice, Veiled Orbs sell for about 15 div when it drops.

Strong boxes mix ever so well with the league mechanic, I have been having great fun with that. If you run them on vaal temples too it is very profitable.

Thank you Empy for compiling all this information. Gonna be useful for next league if I feel like not doing Expedition for once in my life lol

Its crazy how close all the looting strategies are to each other div/hour wise. Well balanced it seems

I fully expected the "Based or Cringe will return" Marvel style postcredit scene

Hello empy, i've been farming ultimatum with 2x bribing scarabs, 1x catalasing, 1x inscription, and most relevant ultimatum passives (except for the one that gives 3 additional rounds at the cost of not being able to pick modifiers) and its a disgusting money printer, and you can afk them with a specialized build, in my case its cast when stunned chieftain, profits are massive and its super chill because you can legit stand still and never die while clearing the ultimatum

I may have gotten lucky on the drop rates, but I got 3 veiled orbs in two hours last night running betrayal with a single intelligence scarab. Just rush the mission and leave. You can get to catarina in 30 minutes if you don't mess around, and she's really easy to kill if you have good phys mitigation.

I really appreciate the ranking also being based on enjoyment rather than raw divs per hour, way to not optimize the fun out of the game! Enjoy your break from PoE :D

How bout trying last leagues strat again? Allflames of the abyss force multiple stygian spires into maps + 4 scarabs of the wisps for 4k wisps. Or maybe add the omen allflames where they already have some wisp juice.

Strongboxes have been a big hit for me - lots of duped raw divs from the boxes themselves, a bunch of apos and a few 7 years, and only gets better the faster your character is (caster mastery to open boxes is a godsend too, don't even need to stop for a second while clearing) I do Crimson Temple mostly but any map that has straight lines/is linear or has really good card drops can work

I feel as though divines/map may make more sense as a metric than divines/hour, because build speed and player speed vary wildly.

I did a betrayal + beast strat. Go in strand, check for craicic chimeral or other good beast (split beast, spider crab...) and do betrayal + kill boss (for influenced maps + intelligence on completion). I did 160 maps in 8hours. Got 9 veiled orb + 3 helmets, 14 CC (double with the scarab so 28) and some T17, other beasts, influenced maps... It was around 170 divs in 8 hours, pretty good. Horrible to run, too many things to manage, you have to skip 95% of mobs to be efficient. Don't do it...

I'd love to see a maxed out Haunted/possessed/touched Rogue Exile farming strat. Run at tier 16's with Scarabs and embers, it gets pretty insane with a solid MF build. Thanks for the videos!

hi, surprising to me that the tier of map and color didnt make any difference while running harbinger, am i right or wrong? i runned mostly t3,4 because it was quicker and gave enough, but still no mirror... i think harbinger is the only thing that isnt influenced by anything, am i right or wrong?

I rather earn even 50% less in Harvest compared to Expedition because of Tujen haggling.

I've always said Harvest is the most underrated strat due to how easy it is to liquidate everything.. nobody factors in setup/trading into their div/hr calcs.. a lot of content creators have dedicated traders who handle all of that tedious shit for them, so "downtime" isn't a factor for them at all.. if you're just a normal guy, Harvest allows you to blast for a few hours.. spend 3 minutes trading.. then go right back to blasting.

With the cheap prices of this league, managed to snag a headhunter and a mageblood following your barrel and go strat, thanks mr empy

It’s funny because I really enjoyed ultimatum… I just hated the rewards, even with the scarabs. It’s relatively simple and fast and my build is immune to like 99.999% of what they can do, so it’s easy mechanically and I don’t mind doing it. But there’s literally only one catalyst that is worth anything at all, and you have to vendor spam the ultimatums to fish for a Divine Orb one to be able to sell those, so it’s like two additional RNG layers on the loot. Like I would routinely get 15 inscribed from a map and vendor them all because they’re all worthless and then get 3 more worthless ultimatums, ie, I did a map and got literally nothing out of it. And blight will forever suck unless you’re in a build with ludicrous ranged clear because they made the decision to disable turrets when they’re off your screen. I’ve lost way too many blight missions because they spawned the nodes in a ridiculous way and I can’t keep the turrets running, and my build didn’t have the clear to prevent them from reaching the center without them. Expedition I honestly have no idea what makes those so rippy but I’ve never felt squishy before I did those but dear god were those hard. I play meaty tanky builds and I died way too many times in Expedition for me to want to do them again. It was hitting me harder than T17 was lol. Harbinger feels just barely better than Ritual to me. It’s simpler and I don’t need to know as much about the game to make money, but having to deal with the slow spawn rate definitely equally offsets that. It’s still RNG. I did like 30 maps and made like 6 div from it, it was easily the worst financial strat for me. I don’t count the unsellable-unless-thousands crap. Harvest is amazing once you realize how the bosses actually work. Kite them into an open area and sit *just* outside their melee range, not offscreen, and they will always phase to their tree form if you have them at 66% life. After you know that they’re easy. I haven’t tried abyss or breach or legion, yet, no comment there.

harvest is great because you dont have to use cringe TFT to sell your shit

Beast farming + Jun has been the cheapest and most paying strat for me

So nothing in C or D tiers? I usually have the same problem when ranking stuff, I either like something or don't. The results get top- and bottom-heavy with nothing in the middle.

I love the concept but i prefer divine per 50 maps much better. divine per hour means nothing because you are running a 2mirror+ wander which is a fast build for almost all of these farm strantegies. apart from that great stuff

how would you rank these strats as league progresses. lets say first 2 or 3 days are nonexistant, how does tiering change from week 1/2/3?

great series really got me hooked to your content!

Thanks alot for these videos this league. Been listening/watching em while playing myself and it has really been calming/soothing for me during the league. Enjoy doing something else for a bit and I'll keep listening/watching next league :)

Wow, I didn't expect to be in such disagreement with this list.

what about the strongbox mech ? would it be an A ?

Good stuff. Would love to see your take on strongbox farming.

my fav is expedition and strongbox in this league

ur expedition strat is impossible for 99% of builds lol

I ran legion and farmed a HH (when it was still 30+ div) and then used that to farm a mageblood. I think I might try switching to expedition or barrels for farming Omni and nimis

you forgot the duo vaal zone chance spamming!

Big thanks for this videos, really enjoyed to watch them 🔥

Plz make a followup when you test the next set of strats

is there a nice non HH simulacrum build? I played CoC vortex of projection last league and fell in love with simulacrum after dropping a voices to fund my whole league, and its just nice for my timeschedule. bonus if it has explosions or asmr sounds

Need to vent! My harbinger runs so far out of like 100, still waiting my first fracturing explosion... saad panda!

I got a mirror shard after 6000 maps all t16 all juiced 4 scarabs , sooooooo yeah , but once in a while u will see some good synth base jewels that sell for 1 div to 50 div

what about starforge based or cringe S or F tier hmmm

Best strat for this stage of the league that less people play? Is expedition only raw currency ?

no strongboxes?????

we need more!!! Like maybe differend twist? Crop Rota / Imbued T17 Harvest with Magic Pack size?? and nemeses?

for me the best so far were essences (20d/h) and ambush div card farm (idk d/h on that one, i was just playing and got a bunch of crazy drops)

emblems did go up, templar is 20c in small bulks. Legion could be A tier now

I run over 700 Harbi Maps, got 1 fracture drop. Still, it was rewarding, but also annoying, so don't expect 1 fracture drop evry 100 maps ;)

Surprised he didn’t mention strong box

Recommend revisiting the Ultimatum strat as its quite fun and lucrative with right setup. Catalyzing scarab is a must and inscribed scarab is more money if you run them yourself afterward otherwise do boss scarab. Duplicated rewards node gives you 25% more return so that needs to be kept on. Also explicit modifier effect on maps affects the rewards of the ultimatum heavily. You need to run 8 mod corrupted with explicit mod effect on atlas. Can also pick Grueling gauntlet mod if your build is optimized for majority of mods or want more of a challenge.

I'm torn, on one hand ultimatum is insanely good profit wise if you do it correctly and I feel like it's being maligned but then again if everyone thinks it's shit and hard to do that means it'll stay good to farm in the future so maybe it's for the best. This is besides the enjoyment aspect though and I'm sure lots of people would not enjoy the gameplay regardless

"if you do the real ultimatum farm, where u step out of the circle each round for half an hour..."

Einhar Craicic chimeral farming for me this league for the first time. About 500div worth of just running through T3 strands while barely paying attention / killing any mobs in most of the maps. I have no calculations or spreadsheets but Im guessing I made something like 20-22div/h even tho I paid big for huge scarab and map bulk.

i wams mad at the blue man that he didnt dropped me anything good, but after i said last map blue man and i respect that tree..... he dropped 22 mirror shards XD XD

Was Blight test done after the new scarab changes? Those made Blighted - and Blight Ravaged - maps obsolete...

Great job, loved this info. I really appreciate it!

You do great work and it is so helpful for me. Thank you 🙏

would you like a convoking wand with no explicits for your museum?

I have tried a bunch of these strats and by far the biggest differences are: One: is your build good at it Two: can you sell the stuff easily in bulk. The reality is if you can't easily sell it in bulk either a lot of the stuff will simply never sell, or take so long to do a 100 little trades, thats the reality is the div per hour is actually more like 2 or 3. Once you take this into account some of the strats are actually more like F tier. Blight would be a good example of this. Most of the times the oils only sell one at a time, and the maps can be very hard to move

the song at the end is a banger

Could you also rank them based on gear? Like for my beginner gear the one with highest yield for your build might not be the same for mine.

One thing is for sure, Empy is based, S tier :D

I've been trying to get into PoE for a while but for some reason can't gget myself to start it. Mostly because I'm intimidated by the skill tree system and don't really know what I'm looking for. So here I come to ask from all you other commenters' help on when should one jump into PoE and what would be y'alls tips for new players. Anything small that could help understand it a bit more will be appreciated!

BUT... How to track "best strategies" at the start of the league?

There was one I was trying out before I quit the league, using compartment scarabs and other ambush scarabs paired with manifested wealth allflames. It was insane, I would to see you try it out Empy :)

Some strats evaluation kinds weird, like "if you do real strat but i didn't". Yeah ultimatum needs to be either full catalyst or catalyst->inscribed otherwise it's pointless. Also it's pointless unless you're on CWS immortal build that can just full-afk any mods except ruin. You did ones like expedition / harvest with full scarabs not whatever and go.

You missed the chance orb strat with adorned jewel farming 😮

I loved this series thank you for doing it.

I normally do blight but this league seems like the good oils drop rate was nerfed. I can't prove it but it was so bad I did something else

Unfortunately ranking them by divine/h isnt the best, because between videos "worth" of divine changed a lot (and most stuff you farm is priced in chaos orbs). I think it would be better to rank them by chaos orbs/h

I ve done 200 maps this league of harb and didnt get any fracturing shard

really loved to watch these. Good stuff.

thanks for the meta content, really enjoying watching your vids, even when the season itself is less fun

Harbinger was A tier? I thought you hated it. Maybe I’m confused. I know I hated it because unless you get the fracturing explosions it is slow and the loot is terrible with no divine shards

Just a tip: if you do this tier list, please add all the links in the description :)

Thank you for enjoyable vids mr youtuber!

Putting ritual in E and Breach in B.. I can't respect that.

Should do a scatter plot of div per hour and enjoyment tbh

I aste dinner in exactly 10:51.. Thats 10 minutes and 51 seconds per dinner

I got my first mirror from ritual yesterday, Exciting.but can confirm extremely boring